Epic photo of a truly dominant race car. the Audi 200 quattro Trans Am.
thanks to the excellent Audi Motorsport Blog‘s FB page
Category Archives: world
photomanipulation….before photoshop.
I’m not a fan of Photoshop for photo modification, as i find it cumbersome and overused by people. That being said…there is something more primitively charming about photomanipulation BEFORE the advent of computer software aids. Does it make it any more acceptable? No, not really! But they are interesting to look at. Somewhere in the future…some kid is going to read (absorb?) an article like this about Photoshop and say “oh how primitive they were back then!”
src: the excellent brainpickings via the book “Faking It”
the machine age.
“The Machine Age” by artist unknown (circa 1916, although thought to be a Vorticist drawing)
This drawing is on sale at Young & Son for a price not listed.
Silica-ESC.
The future of computing and net social interactions? I hope so! A visually interesting and conceptually weird and wonderful short video made by Vladimir Todorovic
Space Shuttle Through the streets of Los Angeles.
A wicked surreal scene of the Space Shuttle going through L.A streets! Lovely time-lapse video by the Los Angeles Times.
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all photos taken by Syed IEDEI
(Leica M8.1, CV 35mm f1.4 Nokton)
Onement 1.
Onement 1, 1948, Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman is easily one of my all-time favourite painters. Why? Because his work is brilliant, simple, minimalist, and of great taste in colour spectrum choices. His paintings are also very very beautiful in person. The majesty and depth of them does not accurately broadcast in online photos.
Mr. Newman discussing “Onement 1”
Mindrelic vs. Manhattan.
I really enjoyed these 2 time lapsed videos done by Mindrelic. The fact that he actually chose interesting music makes it even better. Beautiful! I never get tired of NYC.
Vivian Maier.
I only recently discovered the story and the photographs of Vivian Maier—-and both (the story and the photographs) are fascinating!
“An American of French and Austro-Hungarian extraction, Vivian bounced between Europe and the United States before coming back to New York City in 1951. Having picked up photography just two years earlier, she would comb the streets of the Big Apple refining her artistic craft. By 1956 Vivian left the East Coast for Chicago, where she’d spend most of the rest of her life working as a caregiver. In her leisure Vivian would shoot photos that she zealously hid from the eyes of others. Taking snapshots into the late 1990′s, Maier would leave behind a body of work comprising over 100,000 negatives.”
the story of how these photos and the intriguing person behind them were discovered:
more information here: Vivian Maier
book: Leica “Witness To A Century” (2012)
I ordered this book a while ago on pre-order, and it arrived this week. $22 from Amazon. An amazing and beautiful book for a very low price. Hardcover, by Alessandro Pasi (2012). Highly recommended beautiful short history of Leica with full page spread profiles of every significant camera produced in their illustrious history. This book does not read like a publicity book—-instead it is full of beautiful and iconic photography throughout their history. This is the 3rd edition of this book, revised to include the digital range through the recent M-Monochrom.
Yes I am a Leica fanboy these days and it is driven by my love of creating fotos. And there’s nothing you can do to stop me!
Being inspired to create is so much nicer than obsessing to appreciate.
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my week in photos through my eyes.
all photos by Syed IEDEI using a Leica M8.1
Character: Recycling Typography.
Take old letters from neon signs, swap them for LEDs and place in nice, dark, mysterious locations. That’s what Aleksi Hautamäki has done with this Character series.
I am obsessed with fonts…and in another world, in another time, I would have devoted my life to finding the perfect font. However, in this one I am relegated to simple appreciation.
if you follow the link at the bottom, you can buy one of these light filled giant letters starting at 200 euros.
more info: character.fi
foto of the day.
Who is the greatest photographer of all time? I’m certain I will hear many people say Henri Cartier-Bresson. I haven’t finalized my answer yet, however I can certainly see why.
1944, Spain
src: reel foto
burnout.
it does sort of feel like this sometimes doesn’t it?
lovely series of photos by Romain Laurent
see a short video on Behance
afghanistan.
I am struck by the beauty of this video. A beautiful country with a deep, rich, and beautiful culture which has been stranded in a state of perpetual, drowning, overwhelming conflict and war for many, many years. Will it ever end? For the sake of the young and of the hopeful—I would like to imagine there a solution that doesn’t involve more bombs, tanks, landmines, and guns.
Bentley Continental GT……rallying!?
Well here’s something i’ve never seen! A luxurious, heavy, Hermes shopping bag-filled, leather wrapped interior Bentley Continental GT being given a rally stage work out by ex-Mini driver Kris Meeke! Fantastic!
Apparently this is being filmed for a future episode of Top Gear featuring James May. Why does this not surprise me?
src: WRC
Toy – “Motoring”
A great song by a great band! The album is out now….go and buy it! Bringing the spirit of early 90s UK shoegazing mixed with a healthy prescription of 70s bavarian kraut. A superb combination.
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the past week through my eyes…
tools: Leica M8.1 and Voigtlander 35mm f1.4 (except for “doorway”, taken by a Leica D-Lux3)
Nude 1.
Tagged amazing, art, journal of a nobody, nude 1, nude painting, wyndham lewis
Influencers
An interesting video. Occasionally borders on cliche, however covers a topic which I often think about. The subtlety by which influencers pass on information to their environment and the people around them is fascinating. This video often deals a bit too much about goods and services, however I feel some of the same principles would apply to philosophical, ideological, and even political ideas.
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